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Golden Embers (Live)
05:15
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Just like an old friend
Kinder than expected
That Cadillac came and gave our girl a ride
Loss has no end
It binds to our connection
And we don’t speak of it, we don’t even try
If you could help me to share the trouble
that you’ve got burning in you, then you can help me
And in our time together
Her memory will ever shine like golden embers in the night
I miss the old hymns
when she used to sing
The sparrows spread their mortal wings
Now they’ve all lighted
with the silence of strings
Like notes on the pages, she breathed life into all things
chorus
Just like an old friend
Reach out to me
Bathe me in the light of understanding
And try to help me to share the trouble
that you’ve got burning in you, then you can help me
And in our time together
Her memory will ever shine like golden embers in the night
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2. |
The Wolves (Live)
05:11
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At my gate I’ll always greet you
At my door you’re welcome in
There can be no transgression as a means to an end
On the wind the wolves are howling, open arms are closed in fear
Helping hands are clenched in anger, broken hearts beyond repair
Everything’s so great, it can’t get better
Makes me want to cry
But I’ll go out howling at the moon tonight
There she stands so tall and mighty
with her keen and watchful eye
And the heart of a mother, holding out her guiding light
It’s a hard road to travel, this old rock from end to end
The sun it rises on her brow and sets upon the great expanse
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There she stands so tall and mighty
Her gaze facing the east
At her back our doors are closing, as we grin and bare our teeth
On the wind the wolves are howling
She cries ‘they’re drawing near’
Turn around, turn around, my darling, no, the wolves are here
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She only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
My baby only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
She sparkles like a diamond and she shines like gold
She tends to avoid me when her heart is full
And you can find her roaming from dusk till dawn
With her tricks and her treasures and her dancing shoes on
She only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
My baby only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
She calls me up and tells me 'Honey, I need you'
And I come a’running like I always do
She only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
My baby only holds me in her arms when she's feeling blue
There was a time we rambled ‘neath that neon moon
Her tricks and her treasures were all that I knew
Now she calls and tells me 'Honey, I need you'
And I come a’running like I always do
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4. |
There Was A Time (Live)
04:52
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If I showed up to your wedding wearing black and blue and red
Wouldn’t it seem fitting, ‘cause I’m as blue and angry as I’ve ever been
There was a time when I called you
There was a time when I called you mine
This old house is cold and empty
Even these old walls have bent
I lay down, you’re not with me
Waking up just sinks it in
There’s no gold on either side of the Mississippi
no silver in this world left to find
Precious metal and precious memories slip away, slip away from your finger and your mind
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Every little thing you do is a small reminder, now all I see
is you upon the mountain peak
falling down on me
But looking out over all of Shenandoah
The rocks below could never understand, little darling,
all they stole from me
Now every little thought of you is a small reminder of my regrets
If only you’d known true happiness
maybe one less ghost would be just a lost kid
roaming these hills of Rockbridge County
But round and round you go
mountain high and valley low
And you know i’ll never lose
these old Jump Mountain blues
Round and round you go
mountain high and valley low
Round and round you go
mountain high and valley low
(you know i’ll never lose these old Jump Mountain blues)
(you know i’ll never lose)
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6. |
My Blinded Heart (Live)
05:31
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My blinded heart and these binding chains
Are gonna make a loner traveling onward out of me
Just a rambler calling for constant change
As constant sorrow follows me all of my days
I’m a careless lover reeling over all the aches
And the hearts I can’t unbreak
And it’s breaking mine
Cause if the tides should turn, and I learn all they know
Could I let you go, if it should ever come time
My blinded heart and these binding chains
Are gonna make a loner traveling onward out of me
When did all the good times turn to hard lines on my face
And lead me so far from my place right by your side
And when did all the sad songs that we used to know
Come to haunt me so, each lonely night
My blinded heart and these binding chains
Are gonna make a loner traveling onward out of me
Just a rambler calling for constant change
As constant sorrow follows me all of my days
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7. |
Time We Made Time (Live)
05:19
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Though gently she flows, her depths hold no secrets
and that’s where you'll find my rage
Where the loss and the tears, tucked away through the years,
Rise and fall in waves
It's time we made time just for talking
It's time we made time to heal
But I know she'll be there when I'm lonesome
And tell me just how I feel
Softly, tenderly, using delicate voices
She'll lean in close and draw me near
And once I have heard it's all I can hear
You may ramble my darling but I'll always be there
Though gently she flows, she'll drag you along
to a place just around the bend
Where the riotous roam and nothing is sacred
Where broken hearts never mend
How wonderful it is...
How wonderful...
How wonderful it is...
How wonderful...
It's time we made time just for talking
It's time we made time to heal
But I know she'll be there when I'm lonesome
And tell me just how I feel
Softly, tenderly, using delicate voices
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8. |
Cavalry (Live)
03:24
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I’ve carried the world on my back with no more to obtain
the fire in the sky, a dim light in my eye that’s long faded
And I’ve stood where heroes have fallen, their names turned to stone
Yet I remain nameless, the best friend a hero has known
Now I’m saving my strength for runnin’
these days I’m saving my strength for runnin’
From the age of kings when pride decided all fate
long before war machines took charge and I was to wait
it was blind hope and blinders with young men to carry between
all the death and the glory, believing they’re one in the same
yes I’ve carried the world on my back with no more to obtain
the sword and the shield, perched upon saddles and reins
but the stampedes of thunder, the cavalry’s charge leave me now
for your last war will come and I cannot follow you down
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Echo (Live)
03:43
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I try to close my eyes, clear my mind
And just listen to the wildflowers growing
But such whispers on the breeze don’t come easy now, over all this noise
I spent my youth among the pines
They used to sing a tune so fine
And the wind moved like an echo carrying their voices
But I saw it in a dream, monuments of trees
As the air we breathed turned our lungs to dust
And the redwoods so tall, in all their awe, began to rust
With no bend and sway at all, that ancient dance was lost
And the wind moved like an echo, with a sigh in every gust
Someday I hope to find that land of honey wine
Where the coffee grows on the white oak trees
And those sugar-coated mountains in the spring begin to melt into
the sweetest streams
Where each night the starlight and the sea together form eternity
And the wind moves like an echo as the world drops off to sleep
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Gospel Shoes (Live)
03:34
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Some set their heads to swimming, nothing to lose
And drift about the good times with slippers in their boots
Some walk the straight and narrow, only passing through
Trading this world over for a pair of gospel shoes
Gospel shoes are laced with shackles and chains
Fitted for the poor, the runners of the race
Now every hand is folded to the shape of a gun
The target’s ever changing but the war, it rages on
So the armies march onward for the mother and the son
As this world of screaming color is bleached in the blood
Freedom was a simple word, so reverent and true
A long time ago, it meant the right to choose
who you love and how to live, but now it’s so misused
and twisted by the politics of men in gospel shoes
So the armies march onward for the mother and the son
As this world of screaming color is bleached in the blood
Our mother she is crying, her broken heart is blue
Cause we’re too busy dying to love this life we lose
She’s grown weary of the lying
She’s tired of all this fighting in the name of gospel shoes
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12. |
Hawk Is A Mule (Live)
03:27
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14. |
Into The Sun (Live)
03:46
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Ain’t I got a fortune buried so deep
In a lifetime of memory and the love I keep
Turning within me while the sake of my name
Pours forth the only fortune I’ve gained
And calls me onward
Into the sun
Onward
Into the sun
Just a bird with a broken wing, longing to fly
They’ve stretched every highway this poor boy could drive
At home with the grounded I found a way
Across the plains and o’er the mountains, and back again
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Ain’t I got a fortune in nearing my end
When I think of my family and all of my friends
But the highway has ended, my keys handed in
I’ve mended my broken wing, my soul it begins
to call me onward
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Wildfire (Live)
06:41
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Brave men fall with a battlecry
Tears fill the eyes of their loved ones and their brothers in arms
And so it went for Joseph Warren
It should have been different, it could have been easy
His rank could’ve saved him but a country unborn needs bravery
And it spread like wildfire
From the ashes grew sweet liberty
Like the seeds of the pines when the forest burns
They open up to grow and burn again
And it should’ve been different, it could have been easy
But too much money rolled in to ever end slavery
And the cry for war spread like wildfire
Civil war came and civil war went
Brother fought brother, the south was spent
But its true demise was hatred passed down through the years
And it should have been different, it could have been easy
But pride has a way of holding too firm to history
Then it burns like wildfire
I was born a southern son
In a small southern town where the rebels run wild
they beat their chests and they swear “we’re gonna rise again”
And it should have been different, it could have been easy
The day that old Warren died, hate should’ve gone with him
But here we are caught in a wildfire
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16. |
Hey Stranger (Live)
04:11
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Hey stranger, there’s danger down the line
You’ll find heartache and trouble in all your good timin’ rowdy ways
I tell you no lies
There’s no burden greater in life
As soon as you pick yourself up just to say
Hey to your loved ones they’ll all turn away
Don’t go living with trouble in mind
There’s no burden greater in life
Hey stranger, if ever you decide
Giving in to the bottom will ease your worried mind and heavy heart
You’ll see in time
There’s no burden greater in life
As soon as you pick yourself up just to go
Home to your loved ones you’ll find a locked door
Don’t go making mistakes like mine
There’s no burden greater in life
Don’t go living with trouble in mind
There’s no burden greater in life
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Once the getting was good, but now the getting’s got gone
so i’m going downtown just to tie one on
I’m oak aged and sour, going down by the hour
and I’m as blue as the night is long
So won’t someone dance with me to a waltz about whiskey
and turn my sad songs to lullabies?
I don’t need much of nothing except for all your loving
and a waltz about whiskey on ice
One quarter should do, number A32
a little truth from the jukebox should make it alright
and as the booze sets in I’m getting high again
to a waltz about whiskey on ice
I remember the night she sat down beside me, she cried love was a ring that won’t end
well i was handed a lie
now the only thing I know of a ring is the circle my glass leaves behind
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Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Watchhouse is Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz (formerly Mandolin Orange). The self-titled new album is available now!
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